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Post by brownrexx on Aug 30, 2016 8:39:45 GMT -5
I am growing Mexican Sunflowers (tithonia) in the flower bed outside of my living room windows. they are a very large plant and they are an absolute butterfly magnet. I have never seen a plant that attracts so many different butterflies (hummingbirds too).
My cats just sit at the window and watch them too.
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Post by restless on Aug 30, 2016 12:43:47 GMT -5
I found this photo in my Flickr account. It's from a previous season, but you can see the recently shed skin of the caterpillar in this photo.
It's on the same stem as the caterpillar, but below and behind the caterpillar in the photo.
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Post by lisaann on Aug 30, 2016 17:22:37 GMT -5
restless ,
I See It!
Cool!
Bet I've seen that before, but it was later and I just thought it was dirty stuff on the vine as it dried up more.
That looks like it is on celery. I've never seen any bugs on my celery, good ones or bad ones.
That is very interesting.
Thanks for that pic.
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Post by restless on Aug 30, 2016 18:55:27 GMT -5
That is a celery I regret from the roots of an organic celery I got at the store just to see how it works. Works great. That celery had many bugs on it. Tons of aphids, tons of lady bug larva, and then the swallowtail cats.
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Post by lisaann on Sept 1, 2016 16:46:11 GMT -5
That is a celery I regret Tons of aphids, tons of lady bug larva, and then the swallowtail cats. Alrighty..........It grew, but had issues with bugs? This is what threw me in your reply: I assume it was a sarcastic remark? And you won't do it again? Call me lilolpeapicker! hahahahha I'm dense tonight. Hugs to ya pea!
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Post by lilolpeapicker on Sept 1, 2016 18:28:28 GMT -5
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Post by restless on Sept 1, 2016 19:21:48 GMT -5
lisaann, my cell phone autocorrected regrew to regret. ;)
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Post by lisaann on Sept 1, 2016 19:47:11 GMT -5
my cell phone autocorrected regrew to regret I hope I stop laughing before I choke! That post took on a whole new light after ya told me that! See how words are TWISTED, each and every way? Oh My Goodness!
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Post by brownrexx on Sept 8, 2016 20:03:01 GMT -5
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Post by pepperhead212 on Sept 10, 2017 22:35:10 GMT -5
I have a BUNCH of these out there now! Originally, I thought there were just 3, in my parsley/dill windowsill box on my deck, but I found 6 there today, then, on several dill plants out in the garden, I found at lest 5 more babies. Here's the largest, next to another, and one way down at the bottom: DSCF0341 by pepperhead212, on Flickr Here's the best shot I got of one: DSCF0340 by pepperhead212, on Flickr Here's one of the babies, only about 3/4": DSCF0344 by pepperhead212, on Flickr And here's that huge parsley plant, hiding most of the dill, and maybe more caterpillars! I found the 3 more when I trimmed this earlier, removing the yellowed and browned stems underneath. I use parsley, but I can't keep up with this thing! DSCF0342 by pepperhead212, on Flickr
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Post by OregonRed on Sept 11, 2017 22:10:52 GMT -5
it's pretty, my imagination says it could work as a miniature tree in a miniature landscape
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Post by Mumsey on Jul 9, 2018 6:32:07 GMT -5
Found these a couple days ago, swallowtail. Looks like they love the dill, the top is ate off! That's great, I only grow it for them! There were several on other dill also.
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Post by pepperhead212 on Aug 10, 2020 23:11:09 GMT -5
I just found 6 of those on my dill today, and that was just the dill on my deck, not the 12 plants I planted in my raised bed, mainly for the butterflies! When I cut off the flowering heads of dill for the pickling, I made sure that I didn't get any - they were only about 3/8" long then, but a little over an inch now.
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Post by pepperhead212 on Sept 6, 2020 16:35:47 GMT -5
I found 6 more caterpillars on my dill, in the raised bed today! The dill went to seed long ago, and really hasn't had anything harvestable, other than some seeds for pickles, and I was actually going to pull it out, until I saw the caterpillars. I took photos of the largest ones. I was surprised that they got enough to eat on those plants, but they seem to have grown without any problems! One of 6 swallowtail caterpillars on the dill, 9-6 by pepperhead212, on Flickr Longest of the 6 swallowtail caterpillars, 9-6. by pepperhead212, on Flickr Another of the 6 swallowtail caterpillar, 9-6 by pepperhead212, on Flickr I've seen a good number of black swallowtails this season (one tried to fly onto my back porch when I opened the door just this morning!), and a good number of the caterpillars, as well.
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Post by pepperhead212 on May 30, 2022 10:53:28 GMT -5
I saw the first swallowtail butterfly on the parsley today. The blossoms are just starting to open, and there will soon be a lot of bees, as well! Can't see it real well, as the wings turned up the second the photo snapped - two others were blurry, then it flew away. I haven't seen any caterpillars yet, on that or the dill, which I planted 8 of, mainly for them! First swallowtail I've seen on the parsley, which has just opening flowers. by pepperhead212, on Flickr
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